In the past – and still today for cheaper brands – the method has simply been to boil away the alcohol and then add compensatory flavours.

While we are talking, the broth starts to bubble, then boil away.

“Imagine if Earth were much, much closer to the Sun. So close that an entire year lasts only a few hours. So close that gravity has locked one hemisphere in permanent searing daylight and the other in endless darkness. So close that the oceans boil away, rocks begin to melt, and the clouds rain lava.”

The whites would boil away on the stove awhile.

Even that improbable worst-case scenario it would take “weeks to months” for the 2,000 fuel assembly pieces in the Chernobyl deep water pool to boil away, added von Hippel.